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This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WS5E59D2FB-80CC-4df4-B2E2-71B8BA901762.html

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Suggestion: add reference to this thread's content - http://forums.adobe.com/message/4763530#4763530 - to this topic

[Arnis Gubins]

Jeff,

Exactly what content in the thread is not found in one one form or another (not that it is obvious or clear to a non-experienced FM user) on this help page?

FWIW, there no longer is any index in the help files. One is expected to use the Search function - resulting in a catch-22, where you can only find things that you explicitly know about in the first place, as there no longer are any synonyms nor concepts to look for (that a proper index has).The last proper, useful Index was in the FM 5 manual (Frame Technologies era). It appears that Adobe believes that there is no ROI nor benefit to crafting an index for users when search functions are available.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

If Error7103 felt that the help was inadequate on the topic he mentions, the only way to get it fixed is to add a comment so that the tech writers at Adobe add to it.

[Bob_Niland]

> FWIW, there no longer is any index in the help files.

No, but Adobe does still provide a PDF user guide with what's left of an Index. It's a Frame document - FM8 according to the FM9 PDFinfo. The source used to have substantially (usefully) more Index markers. They were either deliberately or incompetently removed.

PDF or web search of the content is more frustrating than Google. You might not hit NSFW content, but you're going to get drowned in matching but useless hits, and have to wade through them. And as you demur, you pretty much have to know precisely what to look for, and have high confidence that it's buried in there somewhere.

You would expect something pretending to be the premier write-once/flow-anywhere/reference-overload authoring tool to provide, as its own documentation, a shining example of what the tool set can do. I must be thinking of some other product.

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[Arnis Gubins]

Error7103 wrote:

No, but Adobe does still provide a PDF user guide with what's left of an Index.

Unfortunately, this is no longer true for the PDFs as of FM10.

I believe that the new corporate mantra is "Do as I say, not as I do."